ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A small London publishing house, Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, first printed Frankenstein: or, a Modern Prometheus in a limited series of just 500 copies on January 1, 1818.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shelley completed her writing in May 1817, and Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was first published on 11 March 1818 by the small London publishing house of Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones.

Detailed explanation-3: -To understand the outcry of many, the alterations from the 1818 edition to the 1831 edition need to be listed: The 1818 edition’s first chapter was expanded as well as split into two different chapters. The 1831 edition had changes made to the origin story of Elizabeth Lavenza.

Detailed explanation-4: -Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 19 or 20 years old. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer and Explanation: Mary Shelley published Frankenstein anonymously because she was afraid that the nature of the subject matter would cause such an outrage if written by a woman that she would lose her children. At the time it would have been very shocking for a woman to write a novel about murder and horror.